Evening light: looking S from my bedroom window at 21.32 (sunset due 22.11). 9ºC, wind SE force 4.

Good morning. A precious artifact here in Minnesota— a letter from composer Jean Sibelius 1955. #music #composers

1 of world’s most significant #folklore partnerships ws made 81 years ago in an Glasgow tenement flat when John Lorne Campbell married Margaret Fay Shaw. Service in #Gaelic, by Rev Malcolm Macleod & Margaret had to say 1 word - Tha! Yes! Read my account. nts.org.uk/stories/bride-ban…

Eider ducklings ❤️ #Shetland

Thoughts on the baby mouse invasion..

New single out as of yesterday, and it’s Schubert’s last ever song, and truly one of his best: Die Taubenpost ❤️ One month until George Xiaoyuan Fu’s new @weareplatoon album comes out, which I am so honoured to be part of. Listen to the single here: music.apple.com/gb/album/sch…

Am enjoying the Rosenkavalier on @BBCRadio3 For Charles Mackerras conducting (is there anything he couldn’t do?) Felicity Lott, imperious Marschalin My pal Adrian Thompson Valzacchi And Kurt Rydl’s improvisation on a theme by Strauss.. First Rosenkav I ever saw.

The Irish playright George Bernard Shaw, photographed 119 years ago, at the age of 51. I have cleaned and enhanced this very striking Autochrome portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn, taken in colour in 1907 via the Lumiere brother's newly-patented colour glass-plate process.

Walking around the farm between 16.00 & 16.45: 13ºC, wind WNW gusting to force 7, frequent showers.

Wisdom from WB Yeats (b otd 1865): “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” “There is another world, but it is in this one.” “What can be explained is not poetry.”

Tonight — reciting Walton’s FAÇADE: AN ENTERTAINMENT with @FacadeEnsemble for the Bury Music Festival! burymusicfestival.co.uk

Very sad

This is from Norway, but it’s one of the most distinctive and evocative calls of the Scottish Highlands: the ptarmigan. 🔈 Sound ON for this. Video link facebook.com/share/r/17aM5jr…

Good morning!! 74km. Solo. Tent on my back Just uploaded my walk along Scotland's beautiful Affric Kintail Way. New film here: youtu.be/eR8aXYZcmS8?si=zf0K… #AffricKintailWay #Scotland #Hiking

“I was shy, solitary, awkward in company. Alone by the river, alone through the fields, alone on the top of the Forest. Sitting alone on the grass in the sunshine. Walking alone through the woods at night. Alone with myself. Alone - yet never lonely.” ~C.R.Milne

Some women composers to know about! And Louise Farrenc, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clark, Gabriela Ortiz, Henriëtte Bosmans, Caroline Shaw, Joan Tower, Missy Mazzoli And Gabriela Lena Frank who wrote “El último surño de Frida y Diego” performed by the @metopera to name a few! #music

I fell asleep on a train outside Kyoto. I mean really fell asleep, I was exhausted from walking all day. Woke up at the end of the line. Like, the actual end. The train was empty and stopped. I panicked, grabbed my stuff, but then realized my phone wasn't in my pocket. It had fallen between the seat cushions. I was digging around looking for it when the conductor came through. Older woman, very stern looking. I tried to explain in terrible Japanese that I missed my stop and lost my phone. She held up one finger like "wait" and made a phone call. Then she started searching with me. Found my phone wedged deep in the seat. Handed it to me, then checked my train pass to see where I was trying to go. She walked me off the train, across the platform, and put me on the right train going back. Told the conductor on that train something in Japanese, and he nodded. As my train pulled away she gave me this tiny smile and a wave. The new conductor came by and said in English "Yamada-san called ahead. I will tell you your stop. Don't sleep." He personally came and got me at my stop. Said "here is your station. No more sleeping on trains, okay?" Like a gentle scolding. Two strangers went out of their way to get a confused tourist back on track. The first one even made sure the second one knew to watch out for me.

#jokeoftheday Isn’t it time for a #flute joke. #music

Elgar concerto without conductor with fantastic Festival Strings Lucerne at KKL Luzern tonight. When a concerto becomes a chamber music piece - so much fun!

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States. Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.